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Rising Stars (Top)

Coastline Market

Coastline Market helps fishers and harvesters pre-sell their products before landing. By eliminating up to six middlemen from the supply chain, consumers get the freshest product at less than wholesale cost.

Booch Organic Kombucha

The Booch Organic Kombucha microbrewery never cuts corners, never forcing carbonation into their brew, never pasteurizing, using all organic and wild crafted ingredients, and water filtered to the best standards.

Rockwell Razors

Rockwell Razors designs and manufactures disruptive men’s shaving technology, including razors that are customizable and adjustable to any and every man.

Propelling Student Success (Top)

Trailblazers in Canada and Around the World (Top)

Michael Katchen

Michael Katchen, HBA'09

Sarah Richardson

Sarah Richardson, BA'93

Ben Varadi, Anton Robie, and Ronnen Harary

Ben Varadi, HBA'94
Anton Robie, HBA'94
Ronnen Harary, HBA'94

Janet Bannister

Janet Bannister, HBA'92

Western's Entrepreneurship Pillars (Top)

Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship

Recognized globally as a premiere resource for entrepreneurship research and education, the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship serves new business ventures from start-up to succession. Housed within the renowned Ivey Business School, the Institute provides entrepreneurs with the tools, resources and discipline to thrive in a competitive world.

Propel is part of the Campus-Linked Accelerator (CLA) program, an initiative of the Ontario Government and administered through the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE). Propel is partnered locally with LEAP Junction at Fanshawe College. The centre provides co-working space, mentorship, seed funding, events and acts as an advocate for local startups in the community.

Launched in January 2017, the Western Accelerator provides students, faculty and recent alumni with an intense, rapid and immersive education in entrepreneurship.

Its goal is to accelerate the lifecycle of high-potential ventures and compress a year’s worth of learning into a few months.

Born out of a partnership between Western University, Robarts Research Institute and Lawson Health Research Institute (collectively known as the "Partners"), WORLDiscoveries® draws upon a mix of industry connections, sector-specific market knowledge and business development expertise, to help Researchers and local inventors commercialize their discoveries through licensing and new company start-ups.

Innovation Ambassadors (Top)

At their core, Innovation Ambassadors are about sharing – sharing of ideas, of guidance, of understanding, of expertise, of a particular insight into entrepreneurship unique to Western.

Our Innovation Ambassadors are self-identified researchers from across campus who have experience and expertise in entrepreneurship, commercialization or knowledge mobilization. They are charged with a mission to connect great ideas from their areas into the ecosystem. Innovation Ambassadors are an essential component of the Western Entrepreneurship ecosystem. Through their work in faculties and departments across campus, they are dedicated to developing and supporting an innovative mindset at Western.

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Our Ambassadors

Matthew Anderson
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Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology

Tyler Beveridge
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Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

Michael Buzzelli
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Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Science

Subrata Chakrabarti
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Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, LHSC/SJHC

Blaine Alexander Chronik
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Professor
Physics and Astronomy

Norma Coates
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies

Ian Cunningham
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Professor
Medical Biophysics
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Regna Darnell
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Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Research Adjunct Professor of Anthropology

Maria Drangova
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Scientist
Robarts Research Institute
Professor
Department of Medical Biophysics

Qingping Feng
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Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology, and Medicine
Richard & Jean Ivey Chair in Molecular Toxicology
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

Aaron Fenster
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Professor
Medical Biophysics
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Cheryl Forchuk
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Distinguished University Professor
Nursing and Psychiatry
Western University

Doug Fraser
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Professor and Clinician Scientist
Pediatric Critical Care/Trauma Medicine

George Gadanidis
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Professor
Canada Research Chair
Faculty of Education

Elizabeth Gillies
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Professor
Chemistry, Chemical, and Biochemical Engineering

Jason Gilliland
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Professor
Department of Geography, Department of Paediatrics, School of Health Studies, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Yiannis Iordanous
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Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology and Pediatrics

Mandar Jog
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Professor, Neurology
Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
Professor, Computer and Electrical Engineering
Director, London Movement Disorders Centre
Associate Scientific Director, Lawson Health Research Institute

Les Kalman
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Assistant Professor
Restorative Dentistry
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
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Mike Katchabaw
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Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science

Hugo I. de Lasa
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Professor
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Ting Lee
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Professor
Medical Imaging in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Shawn Li
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Professor
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Oncology

Tony Lin
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Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology

Leslie Linton
Adjunct Assistant Research Professor
Don Wright Faculty of Music

Dominic Lim
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Assistant Professor
Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship
Ivey Business School

Len Luyt, Ph.D
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Associate Professor
Chemistry

Manosij ‘Mano’ Majumdar
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Lecturer
Ivey Business School

Ruth E. Martin
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Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Faculty of Health Sciences

M. Hesham El Naggar
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Professor and Research Director
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Carole Orchard
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Professor
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

Gordon "Oz" Osinski
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NSERC/MDA/CSA/CEMI Industrial Research Chair in Earth and Space Exploration
Director, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration

Adam Power
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Associate Professor and Program Director Western University Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Co-founder and CTO Front Line Medical Technologies Inc.

Susan Scollie
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Associate Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Abdallah Shami
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Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering

Kamran Siddiqui
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Professor
Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Walter Siqueira
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Associate Professor
Schulich Dentistry and Department of Biochemistry

Juan Luis Suarez
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Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Department of Computer Science

William J. Turkel
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Professor, Department of History

Eva Turley
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Professor, Depts. Oncology, Biochemistry and Surgery

Xianbin Wang
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Professor
Canada Research Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun Yang
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Professor
Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Program

Graduate Student Innovation Scholars (Top)

Western’s Graduate Student Innovation Scholars apply discipline-specific knowledge and develop expertise in entrepreneurship, commercialization and knowledge transfer with hands-on training. Apply your knowledge today!